Celtic Knots

Celtic knots are an endless variety of knots and the
stylized charts of the knots used for decoration, adopted
by ancient Celts. Although Celtic knots were created in
Celtic times of Polytheistic beliefs, these knots are
more known for their adaptation for the use in the
ornament of the monuments and the Christian manuscripts
as the eighth century Book of Kells.

Celtic Knot History

Little history of the knots is available before the
beginning of the Christian influence on Celts in
approximately 450 C.E. There is much obviously for the
use of the geometrical models as ornament in particular
in jewels before which time. Some historians theorized
that the Celtic religion early prevented their creatures
of description normally. The same designs of
pre-Christian succeeded in penetrating the their
manuscripts and the drawing-model Christians early with
the addition of descriptions of the life, such as
animals, factories and even of the human ones. In the
beginning the models were the interlaced cords complex,
called the braids, which can also be found in other areas
of Europe, like Italy at the sixth century. A fragment of
a book of Gospel, maintaining in the library of cathedral
of Durham and created in Scandinavian Great Britain at
the seventh century, earliest contains the example of the
true designs tied in the Celtic way. The examples of the
plaitwork antedate designs of knotwork in several
cultures around the world, but the broken and replugged
plaitwork which is characteristic of the true knotwork
started in Scandinavian Italy and Gallic Southerner and
diffusion in Ireland with the seventh century. The model
is most generally associated the Celtic grounds but it
was also practiced intensively in England and was
exported in Europe by monastic activities of Irishman and
Northumbrian on the continent. In modern times Celtic art
is popularly considered in terms of the national identity
and thus specifically Irish, Scottish, or the Welsh.

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